Israeli combat veteran Benjamin Anthony noted that several former Fox News hosts and other MAGA influencers have become defenders of white supremacists like Nick Fuentes.
During a Friday interview on Newsmax, host John Huddy pointed out that anti-Semitic rhetoric was common at the recent Turning Point USA AmFest event.
"We need to recognize that the Republican Party is going to have a fight within itself for its identity," Anthony remarked. "There are a number of problems that I saw at AmFest. Firstly, you'll have noted that Steve Bannon and other speakers removed the phrase 'Judeo' from the phrase 'Judeo-Christian values.' They're now talking about Christendom and Christianizing America."
"And I, as a Jewish listener, who's a huge fan of America, don't find a place for myself in a philosophy that eliminates and it raises deliberately the word Judeo," he continued. "Secondly, it was very troubling that Megyn Kelly said that the right would reign supreme, if not for the schism within the party. And then she went on to identify that the sole schism and most significant schism was actually the subject of Israel."
"I think that that's stigmatizing the subject of Israel in a way that's completely unforgivable."
Anthony observed that Bannon had called one Jewish conservative "a cancer."
"This is the lingo of disease spreading that, quite frankly, we heard during the Third Reich," he remarked, singling out Bannon, Kelly, and Tucker Carlson. "And I think that after dealing with those three, it's important to note that Carlson is the progenitor and the propagator of some of the worst canards imaginable."
"It's anti-Semitic," Huddy agreed. "Same with Nick Fuentes. So, while Tucker, you know, he's not backing down on this, he recently told a crowd that anti-Semites have a right to a platform for their hate speech because they have, quote, a soul. No, they don't, not when they're spewing lies, fabrications, and hate. I don't think they do, and I think they should be called out."
"My question is, you know, and it's a question a lot of people have asked, what happened to Tucker?" the host wondered. "But what do you think? Why do you think this has happened with guys like him and Megan Kelly?"
"With regard to Tucker Carlson, I'm not in a position to psychologically evaluate anyone, far from it," Anthony replied. "I also believe that as someone who was dismissed from Fox News, he's gone into a crisis of faith. And oftentimes when you find people in a crisis of faith, that's an abrupt response to some unimaginable events in their life, that they cleave to faith in a fanatical sense that is largely unfounded, not sophisticated, and fails to really comprehend the tenets of the faith, the tenets that brought you to say, for example, what you just said."
"And I think that, quite frankly, he, as is often the case, among weak-minded individuals, looks around for someone to blame other than himself," he added. "And what does he say? Rupert Murdoch carries the water for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. I'm now going to attack Benjamin Netanyahu, the Jewish state, and yes, the Jewish people. Look, we all see through what he's doing. It is anti-Semitism. It's Jew hatred, and it's the worst canards that we can possibly imagine."
"And I believe his next step, in addition to saying that we are killing Christians in the Middle East falsely and that we are the purveyors of usury, something he said just a couple of weeks ago. His next thing will be to say that the Jewish people are the spreaders of disease."
